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authorizing legislation permitting the contracting officers
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the heads of local government to enter into such agreements.
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MR. BOND: I had an exemption bill that you all
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knocked out. Excuse me. But, it isn't bad. The City did
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very well,
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MRS HOFFMAN: The issues that are involved here
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are the results of accidents of lav; which were not con-
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sidered by the State of Maryland. One is bringing into
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automatic tax exemption a class of property that one would
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never have customarily twenty years ago thought of as
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charitable, eleemosynary, et cetera. We used to think that
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church property was restricted in its tax exemptions, for
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example, to those properties which we actively use for
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public worship or the parsonage.
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THE CHAIRMAN: What would be your recommendation
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in this area?
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MRS. HOFFMAN: My recommendation is that, number
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one, the principle of uniformity of taxation needs to be
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reinforced. We need to make uniform, if the State of
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Maryland has a uniform policy with respect to any particular
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class of property or with respect to any particular class
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